SAFARI CONSERVATION EXPEDITION

Join professional conservationists in the field, assisting with giraffe identification, habitat restoration efforts and wildlife predator monitoring. During your first major service project, you will work alongside conservationists to create and construct Giraffe Identity Kits. These kits will be logged into a research data system that the reserve will then use to monitor the population. You will work in groups with your peers, be assigned a camera, and take photos of the giraffes in the wild. You will walk alongside a conservationist to track and find nearby giraffe populations, and then come back and create the profile for the giraffes you find.  For your second project, you will be assisting the Anti Poaching Unit with predator monitoring in the mornings and evenings. Collect camera trap cards and replace batteries, help with snare sweeps, and track cheetahs and lions that are collared for their protection on the reserve to make sure all animals are accounted for. One group a day will also join the rhino patrol and do telemetry!

No GLA program is complete without adventure! While your day-today experience will be adventurous by nature, there is more fun to be had away from Home Base. Discover all the wonders of South Africa and life on the bush on this program. Go on a bush safari and sleep under the stars accompanied by professional field guides. This overnight camping expedition is a major highlight, especially under the constellations of the Southern Hemisphere. You and your peers will kayak down the Tugela River, all the way to Wharthog Island, where you will camp overnight, learn survival skills and participate in a fire watch.